Lyman Beecher Brooks

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    Isn’t it strange some people make
    You feel so tired inside,
    Your thoughts begin to shrivel up
    Like leaves all brown and dried!
    —Rachel Lyman Field (1894–1942)

    As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
    —Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)

    In the breath
    Of the holocaust he
    Is helmsman, hatchet, headlight.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)